Sentences with phrase «floor votes on»

The study looked at floor votes on all legislation that would raise or lower federal spending, a total of 37 votes on 17...

Floor votes on the party's picks for comptroller and attorney general are expected in the afternoon.

When the New York State Senate's Independent Democratic Conference joined in a majority coalition with Republicans in 2012, it claimed that the arrangement would provide more up - or - down floor votes on progressive legislation.

Under House rules, the Speaker schedules floor votes on pending legislation.

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos has repeatedly said he has no plans to allow a floor vote on the abortion component, but indicated this week a willingness to negotiate the other points.

Squadron, D - Manhattan, told Fred Dicker that his conference will begin circulating a petition among Senate lawmakers in order to force a floor vote on the bills.

Democrats have delayed the final floor vote on Trump's nominee for secretary of state, but Rex Tillerson was set to be confirmed Wednesday afternoon.

[5] Under the doctrine, the Speaker will not allow a floor vote on a bill unless a majority of the majority party supports the bill.

Heastie voted in the affirmative on 98.6 percent of the 3,944 bills he cast a floor vote on between 2011 and 2014, a vote distribution that is close to the average among Assembly Democrats.

The sponsor of a Michigan internet gambling bill is attempting to build a critical mass of support for the measure ahead of a potential House floor vote on it in the coming weeks,...

Liz Benjamin at the Daily Politics is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno will call a floor vote on congestion pricing today: Senators on both sides of aisle have received the heads up that the majority is preparing to call a vote on congestion pricing, despite the fact that both Senate Majority Leader Joseph -LSB-...]

The Hastert Rule says that the Speaker will not schedule a floor vote on any bill that does not have majority support within his or her party — even if the majority of the members of the House would vote to pass it.

«That's one of the challenges of Ryan announcing that he was not going to seek reelection: Now everybody is kind of looking to [McCarthy],» said Rep. Mike Simpson (R - Idaho), who has not signed on to the bid to force a floor vote on DACA but would like to see the situation resolved.

It forced a floor vote on the agreement and its implementing legislation in both chambers of Congress; the matters could not «die in committee.»

The Senate, controlled by a Republican - dominated coalition, passed nine of its planks but refused to hold a floor vote on the abortion measure.

Flanagan, after he was elected by the conference, held a floor vote on a package of SAFE Act changes that were unlikely to be taken up in the Democratic - led Assembly.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos pushed ahead with a floor vote on the budget anyway, saying he wouldn't be «held hostage» by Senate Republicans.

A liberal program he opposed had been stalled, and, officially, he wasn't the one who stalled it: It was a Republican from Nassau County who did so, by declaring he would not assent to a floor vote on a tax that requires his chamber's approval.

Though opposition to abortion rights is held by some mainline Democratic senators in the narrowly divided chamber — Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr. chief among them — NARAL's ad takes on Skelos, who does not want to hold a floor vote on the bill (Cuomo is yet to release bill language on his women's agenda, first unveiled at the State of the State, and he says he's still piecing together the abortion rights proposal with women's groups).

Even if Lieberman were to leave Democratic caucus, he would likely vote with them to get a floor vote on such issues as Obama's judicial nominees.

Maffei, D - Syracuse, joined 46 Democratic and Republican members of the House in signing a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi requesting a floor vote on the No Budget, No Pay Act.

The sit - in, led by veteran civil rights campaigner and Georgia congressman John Lewis, was staged to demand a vote on gun control measures, after a 15 - hour filibuster in the Senate on 16 June led to a floor vote on four measures, including one which aimed to prevent those on a terrorist no - fly list from purchasing firearms.

Westchester County's Democratic Caucus is mounting some political pressure in hopes of bringing to the floor a vote on legislation that would set forth a policy on immigration enforcement, despite it not even making it out of committee yet.

Democrats have submitted a motion they believe will force a floor vote on Skelos» leadership position.

With the future of embattled Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos still unresolved, Democrats plan to try again to oust him during a floor vote on Monday.

Alexander has indicated the final bill could be available as early as next week, and said yesterday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R — KY) has agreed to schedule a floor vote on the bill if the committee can produce it.

We will send out an action alert before a floor vote on a bill we intend to include on our scorecard, but there won't be any surprises.

Baton Rouge, La. — Following today's House floor vote on Senate Bill 432, which passed by a vote of 55 - 16, Democrats for Education Reform Louisiana state director, Eva Kemp, released the following statement:

The U.S. House of Representatives has rescheduled a floor vote on H.R. 1732, the Regulatory Integrity Protection Act

Not exact matches

This is because very little is ever formally voted on so if they have the same amount of floor time they might as well be board members.

In a surreal scene on the Senate floor, McConnell and Vice President Mike Pence were seen before the vote speaking with McCain.

This photo provided by Rep. John Yarmuth, D - Ky., shows Democrat members of Congress, including Rep. John Lewis, D - Ga., center, and Rep. Joe Courtney, D - Conn., left, participate in sit - down protest seeking a a vote on gun control measures, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, on the floor of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, whose state of Connecticut shouldered the killing of 20 children in Newtown in 2012, led a filibuster on Wednesday to try to force a vote, insisting he would stay on the Senate floor «until we get some signal, some sign that we can come together.»

In an interview next to her office on the hospital's fourth floor, Sklyarevskaya said she had voted only once, at a third polling station, number 217.

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - Congressional Republicans scrambled on Wednesday to reformulate their tax bill to satisfy lawmakers worried about how much it would balloon the U.S. budget deficit, as the measure moved toward a decisive U.S. Senate floor vote later this week.

In a speech on the floor Monday, he pushed for votes on either his own compromise or Collins» bill.

«To get to that solution, we have to move this debate forward,» Ayotte said on the Senate floor, defending her votes.

Following McCaskill's tweet, Markey said in a statement Monday, «We've reached the magic number of 30 to secure a vote on the Senate floor, and that number will only continue to climb.

He yielded the floor at 2:11 a.m. EDT, saying he had won commitments from Republican leaders that they would hold votes on amendments to expand background checks and ban gun sales to suspected terrorists.

After the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando this year, Democrats in Congress held a sit - in on the floor of the House of Representatives simply to demand a vote on gun control legislation.

The House debated the legislation Friday but abruptly pulled the bill from the floor once it was clear the bill, dubbed the American Health Care Act, was short on votes, according to the Associated Press.

He spoke on the Senate floor hours before the chamber was to vote on a measure that would re-open the federal government.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke on the Senate floor hours before the chamber was scheduled to vote on a stopgap budget measure.

The Kentucky Republican spoke on the Senate floor hours before the chamber was scheduled to vote on a measure that would re-open the federal government.

They asked shop - floor employees first to vote on which part of the multistep machine should get the investment, and then to choose between two competing suppliers for what they had collectively decided on, a robotic slitter - scorer.

The Senate Budget Committee approved the Senate's tax plan on Tuesday, bringing the upper chamber closer to a floor vote, which is expected to take place Thursday.

However, on Wednesday the Senate Public Utilities Committee canceled plans to send Senate Bill 58 to the floor for a full chamber vote at least until next year over concerns about the effects of the bill's proposed changes.

But the House voted 71 - 36 to reject taking up the measure on the floor.

You might have heard that the American Health Care Act, aka Trumpcare, went out with not so much a bang but a whimper on the floor of the House of Representatives last week (it didn't even get a vote).

After postponing the vote once on Thursday, the bill was ultimately yanked from the House of Representatives floor on Friday after it became clear it wouldn't pass.